In Korea, there's been at least one case where one person
hacked the account of another, liquidated his assets, and then waltzed off.
A few days ago news was spreading that some jealous soul (s) has been
hacking the account of a Halo 3 gamer with the purpose gaining control of the special Halo 3 Recon Armor that Bungie had given him.
Not exact matches
The grim outlook follows news that millions
of Yahoo
account credentials were
hacked and that Yahoo had been scanning emails for U.S. intelligence agencies.
Then there was the «hash crash»
of 2013, when the Dow dropped 145 points in two minutes after someone
hacked the Associated Press's Twitter
account and posted, falsely, that explosions in the White House had injured President Obama.
When one website is
hacked and all the usernames and passwords are compromised, the hacker then plugs that same username and password into hundreds
of critical
accounts.
But as Yahoo notes, some
of the
hacks revealed unencrypted security answers — which would provide a quick way into users
accounts.
According to this theory, the family didn't want even the slightest hint
of impropriety to affect the Sky bid — especially when there is enough attention already on the Murdochs» history with News
of the World and the
hacking of private telephone
accounts, an affair that caused them to drop an earlier bid for the company in 2011.
On Wednesday afternoon, Yahoo announced the discovery
of a massive
hacking incident that affected one billion user
accounts.
Cyberhacks have made big headlines in recent months, from the alleged Russian
hack of the DNC and Yahoo revealing more than a billion
accounts were compromised to Amazon S3 going down and affecting millions
of the largest websites.
Verizon (vz) has had preliminary briefings from Yahoo (yhoo) but it still needs «significant information» from the company before it makes a final decision on the materiality
of the
hacking of at least 500 million email
accounts, Silliman said.
Hacked emails from the personal
account of Hillary Clinton's top campaign official show some
of the attention her team paid to courting black voters.
The WikiLeaks organization on Friday posted what it said were thousands
of emails obtained in a
hack of the Clinton campaign chairman's personal email
account.
If, like me, you use the same password for a bunch
of different
accounts, you're probably setting yourself up to get
hacked (I'm just too forgetful to even try to remember multiple passwords).
This week, a teenage high school student reportedly
hacked into the email
account of CIA Director John Brennan and posted personal details to WikiLeaks.
This one may be the most obvious weapon in a hacker collective's arsenal: outright
hacking of social media
accounts.
Meanwhile, consumers are still coming to terms with the implications
of the 500 million
account hack, which appears to be the biggest such incident in history.
Podesta confirmed that the FBI is investigating the
hack of his private email
account as part
of the ongoing probe in other Democratic Party
hackings by groups with Russian ties.
They point to the
hack of accounting and consultancy giant Deloitte as only the most recent example
of this problem.
Chipotle's Twitter
account, which has more than 200,000 followers, added more than 4,000 followers on the day
of the «
hack» compared to its usual 250 new followers a day.
Recently, Trapster, an app that warns drivers when a speed trap is ahead, was
hacked, exposing millions
of iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, and Windows Mobile phone passwords — some
of which may also have been linked to a user's PayPal
account.
Back to the
hack: Mounir Mahjoubi, the head
of Macron's digital team, was aware five entire mailboxes had been stolen, including personal
accounts.
This new system comes after several
hacking attacks targeted the Gmail
accounts of prominent individuals.
Some suggest these images came from a ring
of cybercriminals who brag online about «wins» from storage services such as iCloud and who offer to
hack individual
accounts for money.
Anonymous appears to already be
hacking ISIS - related websites, documenting the process on Twitter with the hashtags #TangoDown, #OpParis and #OpISIS, though none
of the Twitter
accounts involved is verified.
No matter where the information came from, whether via malware or shared passwords revealed in
hacks of other services, any
accounts with «direct password exposure» have been locked (similar to pre-emptive moves Netflix and others are using when they see
account details floating around), and emails were sent to the owner prompting for a password reset.
Particularly notable in light
of hacks that have recently affected
accounts from Katy Perry to Mark Zuckerberg to the NFL, the social network said it has identified a number
of accounts for extra protection.
An individual connected to «Vamp» first tweeted a link to the alleged vulnerability directly at one
of TalkTalk's Twitter
accounts on October 23, a day after the
hack was first made public.
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Already this year, computer crackers drubbed the Italian spyware firm
Hacking Team and breached the personal email
account of the CIA director.
Whether Apple's famous iCloud was actually
hacked or if this was a series
of targeted attacks against specific
accounts is somewhat interesting but inconsequential to most
of us.
According to a tweet posted from Zuckerberg's
account — which was likely not from him, since he hasn't tweeted since 2012 — the attackers claim that Zuckerberg's password was one
of more than a hundred million obtained by an attacker in a 2012 LinkedIn
hack.
While the vast majority
of professionals would never access a business
account from something other than their own (or company's) devices, that doesn't mean a misplaced or stolen smartphone or laptop couldn't be used to access your organization's page, or that someone wouldn't try to
hack their way in.
Having your bank
account hacked can be a financial nightmare and when you've got thousands
of dollars sitting in your checking
account, it can be take longer to detect.
One big tell: It doesn't appear that much personal data from Yahoo
accounts has been posted for sale online, meaning the
hack probably wasn't the work
of ordinary criminals.
An unknown number
of accounts were affected by both
hacks.
So the way that they found your
hacked account was the screenshots that we sent them,
of your phone's lock screen, which had driver names and driver's licenses on them.
Taylor K. Gordon is a personal finance writer and founder
of Tay Talks Money, a personal finance and productivity blog on
hacking your way to a happier savings
account.
The central bank's website and Weibo
account — China's answer to Twitter (TWTR)-- both came under a «denial
of service» attack, potentially
hacked by angry Bitcoin investors, according to state media.
Additionally, unlike existing centralized solutions which place consumers at risk
of an eventual
account hack or
of the confiscation
of funds, users
of FirstBlood are completely in control
of their assets with no involvement
of third party organizations.
LaVorgna is a
hack who has spent his career on Wall Street preaching fairytales about the economy as a means
of assisting the snakeoil salesmen at his bank in their efforts to stuff as much high - commission junk into investor
accounts as possible.
Equifax waited six weeks to admit to a
hack that compromised the personal information
of 145 million customers, and Yahoo disclosed a massive data breach involving 500 million
accounts late last year — a full two years after the incident occurred.
British Airways froze frequent flyer
accounts after a massive
hack that may have accessed the information
of tens
of thousands
of customers.
Sports gear maker Under Armour said Thursday a data breach
of its fitness application was
hacked, affecting some 150 million user
accounts.
«Within an hour
of posting this essay several people from Bitcoin Core tried to
hack into my Twitter
account.»
Over the past few years, there have been quite a few cases
of hacking of virtual currency
accounts.
The value
of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin ($ 2900 today) and Ethereum ($ 260) keeps rising, and as investors flock to buy them, hackers flock to
hack into their
accounts to steal them.
A compromised college email
account may have been at the origin
of the
hack, according to Balina, who has asked the community for help to catch the perpetrator.
Wall Street boasts
of 3,000 vendors and over 400,000 customers who visit the marketplace who purchase recreational substances, banking
accounts, and
hacking software in exchange for bitcoin and monero.
Google hired hundreds
of security engineers with six - figure signing bonuses, invested hundreds
of millions
of dollars in security infrastructure and adopted a new internal motto, «Never again,» to signal that it would never again allow anyone — be they spies or criminals — to
hack into Google customers»
accounts.
For example, one user was never notified when his Venmo
account was
hacked, and was only notified
of a large transaction by his bank: